Tomorrow in colour
It’s been less than a week since the elections. One week – and so much has already happened. Borders are being tightened, fences are being raised, rhetoric is being sharpened. The AfD is gaining momentum – along with the illusion that isolation is a solution. And as all this unfolds, the truly urgent questions are fading from view: How do we protect our democracy? How do we respond to the climate crisis? How do we deliver social justice? These questions barely found a place in the debates. Instead, everything was reduced to a single narrative – migration as a threat.
It is disheartening to see how almost every party has seized upon this issue, as if nothing else mattered. But this isn’t just about politics, numbers, or laws. It’s about people. It’s about children who have no home, whose identities are erased between stamps and paperwork, long before they even find words for themselves.
I started writing the song Tomorrow in Colour some time ago—it was a matter of the heart. Now, it is finally complete. It was an honour—and a true joy—to work with Arya Atti and her daughter. I don’t usually include children in my videos. But she represents so many others—the unseen, the nameless. Those whose lives are dictated by documents, whose futures are determined by regulations.
We filmed at the Huguenot House in Kassel, a place deeply intertwined with the documenta, a space for art, for questioning, for engagement. There, Silvia Freyer’s wall installation “A work that opens spaces and connects people” stands—a piece that embodies exactly what is needed now: it opens spaces and brings people together. And that is what truly matters. At the same time, the Huguenot House is not just a place of memory—it is a place of lived presence. Arya Atti works here, has her studio in these rooms, painting, creating—bringing life into the space. It is this vitality that carries the house. She is the one giving it a future. Maybe that’s exactly what this moment demands. Keeping spaces open, where not only the loudest and the most powerful are heard. Asking questions that go beyond fences and restrictions. Thinking in colours instead of borders.
Because another world is possible. It begins in the images we create. In the stories we tell. In the hands that reach for one another.